"The 3,000 defenders of Changzhou poured out of the nest, and after leaving the city, they fought a bloody battle with the Cantonese bandits. The Cantonese bandits attacked Changzhou, and the defenders had to retreat to Xuancheng. Emperor Xianfeng said word by word to the ministers of military aircraft.

The ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were originally like dogs in front of the emperor, and the ministers of military aircraft were just dogs favored by the emperor, and there was nothing particularly different. Since the rebellion of the Taiping Army, the ministers of military aircraft do not know how many times they have been scolded for their bloody heads, and this time looking at the appearance of the emperor, everyone knows that this angry scolding is indispensable. Habit becomes natural, and it doesn't matter what the ministers of military aircraft think about in their hearts.

Although it doesn't matter in their hearts, everyone has to be honestly scared on the surface. Therefore, the head of the Minister of Military Aircraft began to run in a hurry, speculating on the emperor's thoughts.

After the Jiangbei camp in Jiangnan was broken, 40,000 Qing troops converged with more than 10,000 Qing troops in Jiuhua Mountain, the governor of Jiangsu, and retreated all the way, and more than 50,000 Qing troops retreated in the direction of Xuancheng and Huzhou.

The defeated Qing army did not have the opportunity to retreat to Changzhou, but they retreated to the Xuancheng area, which clearly regarded Changzhou as a sacrifice. Even if the imperial court wants to blame the defeat of the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps, it will take a while. Changzhou is very close to Zhenjiang, and the Taiping army will not let Changzhou go. Once Changzhou was captured and the gateway to Suzhou and Hangzhou was opened, the imperial court, in order not to worsen the situation, could only temporarily let go of the punishment for the defeat of the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps, and let those generals of the defeated army "wear guilt and make meritorious contributions". Although these people cannot be allowed to escape punishment completely, they can finally buy them a little respite.

However, the Taiping army was slow to move, and it did not march into Changzhou, which is 100 miles away from Zhenjiang, for more than half a month. The Jiangnan Jiangbei battalion got a turning point again, and Xiang Rong, the commander of the Jiangnan battalion, committed suicide after the defeat and bravely took responsibility. No matter how good the emperor Xianfeng is, it is impossible for him to go to the underworld to severely punish a dead person. On the occasion of this defeat, taking the dead Xiang Rong can only further damage the morale of the Qing army. Therefore, Emperor Xianfeng could only severely punish the commander of the Jiangbei camp, Jiangning General Tuo Ming'a and others, and put them in prison.

The matter of punishing the camp in Jiangnan and Jiangbei was temporarily resolved, and the generals finally relieved the heavy pressure on their hearts for the time being. But Changzhou could only rely on its own strength to face the fierce offensive of the Taiping army. None of the ministers of military aircraft are fools, and the tricks of the Changzhou defenders are not very clever. The Ministers of War and Aircraft are very knowledgeable about these colleagues, but if they were to be left in that position, they might not be able to do so. The Manchu Qing Dynasty talked about "the responsibility of defending the territory", no matter what the reason, the end of giving up defending the city is death. The Minister of Military Aircraft can also understand the gang of fleeing guys, Wei Ze is now famous, defending Changzhou is certain to death, and the defenders of Changzhou are unwilling to surrender, so they can only choose to flee for their lives.

It doesn't matter how you understand the suffering of your colleagues now, it is the group of wastes who lose the battle, and it is this group of ministers who are scolded in front of the emperor every day. For the ministers of military aircraft, how the battle situation on the front line unfolds is something that can be dealt with in the future, and the first task at the moment is to appease the emperor first. Every minister of military aircraft began to think about how to dispel the anger of Emperor Xianfeng.

However, the ministers of military aircraft were wrong, and Emperor Xianfeng was not angry in his heart. The successive rounds of bad news had numbed the young emperor's nerves a lot, and it was a lot bigger. Now what has attracted Xianfeng's full attention is an even more dangerous situation.

The Little Knife Society is rebelling in Shanghai, and the camp in Jiangnan and Jiangbei has been broken again. Weese began to move eastward again. Needless to say, the ultimate goal is to attack Shanghai. The Little Knife Society already had tens of thousands of people, and after capturing Songjiang and other places, Wei Ze's troops arrived in Shanghai, and they could join forces with the Little Knife. At that time, there were 100,000 Shu Yue bandits led by Wei Ze. Just thinking about this amount, Xianfeng felt a splitting headache.

Capture the southern part of Jiangsu, and you will be able to attack Zhejiang. The army of 100,000 tigers and wolves, under the leadership of the bandit Wei Ze, will definitely turn Jiangsu and Zhejiang upside down. Once Jiangsu and Zhejiang are eroded, the financial resources of the Manchu Qing will be cut off. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was crumbling. As for what to do with the defenders of Changzhou, Xianfeng didn't care. In all fairness, nearly 100,000 people in the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps couldn't stop Wei Ze, and Xianfeng really didn't think that Changzhou's 3,000 soldiers and horses could defeat Wei Ze's tens of thousands of troops.

"Is there any new piece of Zeng Guofan?" Xianfeng said coldly.

Minister of Military Aircraft Tuo and Luo? Mu Yin immediately replied: "Back to Long Live Lord, Zeng Guofan said that there are only more than 2,000 people in the 5th battalion of Xiangtan in the naval division, and only more than 2,000 people in Xiangtan and Pingjiang in the 6th division. Therefore, there was an urgent need to recruit soldiers, build warships, purchase firearms, and rest and replenish. ”

Jiang Zhongyuan in northern Anhui was ordered to establish the Huai Army, and with the assistance of Li Hongzhang, the Huai Army was established very quickly. By the beginning of January 1854, there were 24,000 people. In Jiang Zhongyuan's play, he is training this Huai army. Moreover, the Taiping army had nearly 100,000 people in central Anhui, most of whom were men and horses pulled up by Wei Ze, and the twisted army in northern Anhui followed Wei Ze to the north and returned to northern Anhui after looting in the north. The Twist Army led the localities, tried their best to resist taxes, and kept entanglement with the Qing army, and Jiang Zhongyuan's more than 24,000 people could only stick to Suzhou. Hold the north of the Huai River and prevent the Taiping army from going north.

The Qing army in other places was repeatedly defeated, and in this defeat, only the Hunan army established by the Zeng State Domain in Hunan counterattacked. In Xiangtan, the Taiping Army defeated the South Road troops of the Western Expeditionary Army, and then took advantage of the situation to pursue, and the Taiping Army retreated under the attack of the Hunan Army, almost unable to stop, and finally barely held in Changde.

Xianfeng was very impressed by Zeng Guofan's battle report, and he ordered: "Zeng Guofan's war report said that the Cantonese bandits' naval army was completely annihilated by him. Now there are no Cantonese bandits on the Yangtze River who can be hostile to Zeng Guofan. Then order Zeng Guofan to lead the naval army down the river, seize the strongholds along the way, and approach Jiangning! ”

This order startled several ministers of military aircraft. Mu Yin said tentatively: "The Taiping army controls both sides of the Yangtze River from Jiujiang to Zhenjiang, and it is too risky to rely only on the water army to go downstream. Moreover, Zeng Guofan's own nest is in Hunan, he led the naval army to go deep so alone, where did the logistics supply come from? Wei Zedong's purpose in entering Changzhou was obviously to march into Suzhou, and Zeng Guofan's naval army even if he reached Jiangning City, he would eventually have to go down the river to rest, and it was impossible for Jiangsu to listen to Zeng Guofan. What about the supplies when the time comes? ”

However, after the emperor spoke, Shu Xing'a, the minister of military aircraft, immediately expressed his support for Xianfeng. "What the Lord said is that if Zeng Guofan fights from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Jiangning will be closed. The Cantonese bandits will definitely mobilize the thief army to rescue, and the closest to Jiangning is the Cantonese bandit Wei Ze, who will definitely have to return to the army to rescue. Wouldn't it be possible to save Suzhou immediately? ”

These military ministers are all northerners, and they don't know anything about water warfare. Although listening to what Shu Xing'a said is very reasonable, he has no score in his heart. It's just Xianfeng's words, these people can't come up with any other way by themselves, no matter how they play the small drum in their hearts, they are also happy to put the responsibility on Xianfeng, who commands.

So someone immediately began to draft an order to put Xianfeng's will into words.

At this time, Xianfeng said: "Jiang Zhongyuan recommended Zuo Zongtang several times, so he asked Zuo Zongtang to be the minister of group training to form a group training in Zhejiang. ”

There are many people who recommend Zuo Zongtang, Jiang Zhongyuan is only the most hard-working one recently, since Xianfeng has such an order, the ministers of military aircraft have no objection, and immediately began to draft the order.

At this time, Wei Ze had also led troops into Changzhou. Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, did not blindly weaken Wei Ze's strength, when he broke the siege of Tianjing, the Qing army in the camp of Jiangnan and Jiangbei was defeated, Yang Xiuqing arranged for Wei Ze to march eastward, one of the strategic purposes was to completely defeat these Qing troops, at least to expel these Qing troops. Don't let them threaten Tianjing City again.

The General Staff believes that at this stage, if the Qing army retreating to the Xuancheng area tries to counterattack, it will first contain the attacking troops of the Qing army, use the water transportation of Taihu Lake to cut off the retreat of the Qing army, and encircle and annihilate those Qing troops who dare to attack. Wei Ze had already told Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, of his strategic concept, and Wei Ze felt that there must be people in the ambush of the king of the east in his army, and Wei Ze was not worried that his plan would not be understood by Yang Xiuqing.

At this time, Wei Ze was full of joy that he could finally approach Shanghai, so that he could fully do business with foreign devils. In this era, no Chinese can understand better how to do business with foreign devils than Wei Ze, and Wei Ze has confidence in the second pole.

After Wei Ze seized Changzhou, he asked Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, who would guard Zhenjiang, and this idea was quite selfish. If Wei Ze continued to garrison Zhenjiang, he would have to be responsible for supporting Tianjing City when it was attacked. By throwing out the hot potato of Zhenjiang, Wei Ze could concentrate on the east and implement his strategy.

After handing it over, Yang Xiuqing did not reply immediately. Wei Ze didn't dare to leave Zhenjiang with his own troops, if he wasn't in Zhenjiang, Yang Xiuqing suddenly ordered the defenders stationed in Zhenjiang to be directly assigned to Yang Xiuqing's command, and it would be a big loss. After losing Zhang Yingchen's 10,000 people, Wei Ze can still withstand it, but if another 10,000 people are taken away, Wei Ze will really not be able to withstand it.

At this time, Zeng Guofan received a holy decree from Emperor Xianfeng. In the holy decree, Zeng Guofan was ordered to send a naval army down the river, break the Taiping army's defense line on the Yangtze River, threaten Jiangning, and cut off the Yangtze River with a naval army

At this time, Zeng Guofan received a holy decree from Emperor Xianfeng. In the holy decree, Zeng Guofan was ordered to send a naval army down the river, break the Taiping army's defense line on the Yangtze River, threaten Jiangning, and cut off the Yangtze River with a naval army

At this time, Zeng Guofan received a holy decree from Emperor Xianfeng. In the holy decree, Zeng Guofan was ordered to send a naval army down the river, break the Taiping army's defense line on the Yangtze River, threaten Jiangning, and cut off the Yangtze River with a naval army

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